Data May Be Truncated After 1,835 Characters When You Transfer Array Data to Cells in an Excel Worksheet (832136)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office Excel 2003
  • Microsoft Excel 2002
  • Microsoft Excel 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro to transfer data from a VBA array that contains strings of data to a range of cells in Microsoft Excel 2000 or in Microsoft Excel 2002, the data may be truncated (cut off).

Note In Microsoft Office Excel 2003, you may receive the following error message when you run the VBA macro in the Visual Basic Editor:
Run-time error '1004':

Application-defined or object-defined error
If you run the VBA macro from your Excel worksheet (on the Tools menu, point to Macro and then click Macros), you may receive the following error message:
Microsoft Visual Basic: 400

CAUSE

This problem may occur when the VBA array is longer than 1,823 characters in length.

WORKAROUND

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To work around this problem, populate each cell in your worksheet one at a time from the array, instead of populating the whole range at one time.

To do this, use a VBA macro that is similar to the following example:
Sub PopulateRangeWithArray()

Dim x

   ReDim x(1 To 2, 1 To 2)
   x(1, 1) = String(2000, "a"): x(1, 2) = String(5000, "b")
   x(2, 1) = String(17000, "c"): x(2, 2) = String(33000, "d")
   MsgBox Len(x(1, 1)) & "," & Len(x(1, 2)) _
      & "," & Len(x(2, 1)) & "," & Len(x(2, 2))
   Range("a1").Value = x(1, 1)
   Range("b1").Value = x(1, 2)
   Range("a2").Value = x(2, 1)
   Range("b2").Value = x(2, 2)

End Sub

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

166342 XL: Maximum Array Size in Microsoft Excel


Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:10/11/2006
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